The Israeli researchers further report that “A
[UK] Cochrane systematic review (2015) “concluded that there is very little
updated and high-quality evidence indicating that fluoridation reduces dental
caries, while there is significant association between fluoride levels and
dental fluorosis [white
spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth]."

Israel
policy-makers and public health officials ignored or denied valid evidence,
produced by experts in their fields and respected science groups to push through
a fluoridation mandate in Israel, report Gesser-Edelsburg and
Shir-Raz.

They report that “policy makers themselves …[carry]
out what they accuse others [fluoridation opposers] of doing. They share only
partial, biased information in order to support their [pro-fluoridation] case,
and convey information in terms that misrepresent the actual
situation.”

The same is true in the US

From the beginning, respected US scientists and
physicians criticized fluoridation but were ignored (i.e., Waldbott). Voices of
opposition were
suppressed since the early days, according to Chemical and Engineering
News.

“Fluoridated water [does] not seem,
based on the existing literature, to hold sufficient evidence for the reduction
of dental caries,” report Italian researchers in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry(December 2016).

Swedish
researchers, in PLOS one, February 2015, reported a “systematic
review concerned the caries-preventive effect of water fluoridation [McDonagh]…
was graded as low.”

In
July 2012, Cagetti, et al. reported “Studies of the effectiveness
of water fluoridation have been based on observational study designs… these
studies are regarded as low in quality and the weight of the evidence derived
from cross-sectional and observational studies can be
questionable”